Manual setup for outlook.com accounts is absolutely unnecessary, Outlook 2016 does that automatically in a few seconds.

That being said, if you insist in doing it manually the correct option is Exchange ActiveSync. Office 365 option is for so called workplace email accounts, Azure AD / Office 365 for Business or Enterprise users. You select that option only if your organisation uses Office 365 and you want to set up your workplace email in Outlook 2016.

Manual setup for outlook.com accounts is absolutely unnecessary, Outlook 2016 does that automatically in a few seconds.

That being said, if you insist in doing it manually the correct option is Exchange ActiveSync. Office 365 option is for so called workplace email accounts, Azure AD / Office 365 for Business or Enterprise users. You select that option only if your organisation uses Office 365 and you want to set up your workplace email in Outlook 2016.

Kari

Thank you very much Kari. I appreciate your help. I also found some information that I would like to post as I solved the issue. You did confirm the answer. Doing it the automatic way it sets up the email account as a Regular Exchange account. With that said, a regular Exchange account vs ExchangeActiveSync, what would be better to set up as? I heard that an Exchange account is better and had better features. Not sure if correct.

There is a problem with the setup of email accounts due to the upgrades Microsoft is doing, something like that, and I needed to reconnect my email accounts to Outlook 2016 according to this article.

Cannot Export To, Import From Or Setup Outlook 2016I have been using Windows Live Mail 2012 as my email client for years. Due to Microsoft changes I decided to switch to Outlook 2016. I have installed Office 365 Personal, taking advantage of the free one year subscription, although I am...

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